Der Spiegel:Europe's Right-Wing Populists Find Allies in Israel(unlikely bedfellows-Nazis, Zionists)

[stockholmer]

Islamophobic parties in Europe have established a tight network, stretching from Italy to Finland. But recently, they have extended their feelers to Israeli conservatives, enjoying a warm reception from members of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's coalition. Some in Israel believe that the populists are Europe's future.

http://www.spiegel.de/international/europe/0,1518,777175,00.html

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But recently it has become clear that Europe's populist parties aren't merely content to establish a network on the Continent. They are also looking further east. And have begun establishing tight relations with several conservative politicians in Israel -- first and foremost with Ayoob Kara, a parliamentarian with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's Likud party who is also deputy minister for development of the Negev and Galilee districts.

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In other words, in the battle against what right-wing populists see as the creeping Islamization of Europe, Israel is on the front line.

'More Sensitive to the Dangers'

Many in Israel see it the same way. Eliezer Cohen, known in Israel by his nickname "Cheetah," says that leftist parties in both Europe and Israel have lost their way. Cohen, a decorated Israeli air force colonel now in retirement, is a former member of the Knesset with Yisrael Beiteinu, the hardline nationalist party led by Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman that currently governs together in a coalition with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's Likud party.

"Right-wing politicians in Europe are more sensitive to the dangers facing Israel," Cohen, who gave a keynote address during Dutch right-wing leader Geert Wilders' visit to Berlin last October, told SPIEGEL ONLINE. "They are talking the exact same language as Likud and others on the Israeli right. I'm too old for bullshitting -- we hope the right wing wins out in Europe."


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[napoleon_in_rags]

1. These reactionaries have two modes:

1) Blame Jewish financiers for the ills of the world (George Soros) just like Nazis. And if they can't get away with that:
2) Establish the narrative of the protocols of the learned elders of Zion by apologizing, by worshiping Israel pathetically as if its something they HAVE to do. As if there is a gun to their head, FORCING them to do it.

If only the Israeli right were willing to see this game unfolding, they would reject both and demand to be treated with the simple human respect Israelis deserve...

[Raksha]

2. Don't let them fool you - these so-called "right-wing European populists"

aka Nazis, haven't stopped hating Jews just because they started hating Muslims. They hate them BOTH, but they try not hate them both at the same time. At least not in public, and definitely not in Israel.

[LetTimmySmoke]

3. When your true enemy is the civil society, you can find right wing allies anywhere.

[malaise]

4. The abused often become the

abuser